The Shape of Fear LP : https://suno.com/playlist/7cd286d4-6c2e-49a1-aadb-be786f2d0195 [Verse 1] The barn stood black behind the house The rafters wet with autumn rain I raised the lamp and something moved I saw her open eyes in pain Her hair was sparse along its ribs Her mouth lay mangled near its throat It tried my name through crooked teeth In half a voice I used to know [Pre-Chorus] I thought it found the cruelest way To have the dead ask me to stay [Chorus] It wore her wrong, it wore her wrong Her tender face where none belonged One open hand above the straw I saw a trap in all the flaws Don’t use her eyes, don’t say my name Don’t remind me of her death this way It wore her wrong, it wore her wrong But never took one step my way [Verse 2] I returned again at morning dawn My father’s shotgun in my hands I dared to peek inside the barn I dared to offer it a chance Her eye had learned the proper blue Her smile had softened at the sides It studied every disgusted look And she appeared less wrong each time [Pre-Chorus] The shape was trembling Where it knelt From holding what it thought Might help [Chorus] It wore her wrong, it wore her wrong Her tender face where none belonged One open hand above the straw I saw mercy in all the flaws It used her eyes, it said my name And made me face her death again It wore her wrong, it wore her wrong But malice never came my way [Bridge] Her borrowed features came apart Each memory fighting for a place Each age in which I’d known her passed Upon the creature’s pain filled face It bent beneath the weight of her Of all I wished it could be I laid the old gun in the straw You don’t have to wear her for me [Final Chorus] You wore her wrong, I read you wrong We sat together through the dawn No borrowed eyes, no borrowed name The open hand remained the same You let her face return to dark And showed me what you truly are I could not teach my fear to leave But I choose to stay and breathe [Outro] At dawn the light moved through the barn Across the tin roof and broken boards It found two shadows in the hay And neither one of them Was hers
